§ MR. BROOKE ROBINSONI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he can say upon what principle it is that Official Receivers in Bankruptcy are prohibited from accepting political agencies or appointments of that character, and also from being either County or Town Councillors, whilst Registrars of County Courts, whose duties are in many respects very similar, are placed under no restrictions whatever?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe salaried Official Receivers are permanent Civil servants of the Crown, and to these the Rules of the Civil Service undoubtedly apply. The unsalaried Receivers are in a different position, and at the time of appointment several of them held municipal offices, and have continued to do so. The Registrars of County Courts are not within the jurisdiction of the Board of Trade.